Like it or not, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a hot topic, and SOAP-based Web services have emerged as the most common implementation of SOA. But, as James Governor put it, “SOA reality ...

Web Services play a key role in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly ...

In real-world scenarios, a BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) business process will often have to connect to an existing application or system. Of particular interest here is connectivity to ...

So we have a web app that currently runs in production. The web server is Win2k SP4, IIS5, has installed MSXML, ODBC.NET, MSSOAP 3.0, MS.Net 1.1... all of these things are required for this web ...